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Following the arrest in Brasilia of a supporter of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly trying to set off a bomb to create chaos ahead of the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil’s new president, the BBC’s South America correspondent Katy Watson examines the risks that hardcore Lula opponents pose for his...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a four-part series “Saving the World – One Ecosystem at a Time.” Article 3: “A trip among ecosystems and species brought back from the edge of extinction.” By John Keeble A tangle of forest near Ecuador’s border with Peru closed in around me as I made my way...
President Guillermo Lasso has vetoed reforms by the National Assembly to his economic development law he says will stall economic growth and social recovery. The changes approved by the Assembly would eliminate taxes adopted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic he claims are “critical” for funding the national budget. “This is an irresponsible act on...
By Stephen Vargha Cuenca appeared to have rebounded from the Covid pandemic with its Christmas celebrations and decorations. And Christmas was a huge and welcomed source of revenue for Cuenca businesses. The city announced that visitors to Cuenca for the Christmas season generated $2,265,246 for the local economy. “Cuenca was an important meeting point during...
By Daniel Cross Amphibians in tropical rainforests have been up against increasingly grave challenges, but now and then comes good news that gives us cause for optimism. In one such development ecologists at Michigan State University in the United States and their colleagues in Ecuador report that 32 harlequin frog species continue to survive in...
By Austin Williams For a country that prides itself on 5,000 years of unbroken history, it is remarkable how often China has reinvented itself. Since Mao established the People’s Republic in 1949, there has been war, famine, isolation, brutality, communism and state capitalism. Within living memory, the country has gone from peasantry to urbanity, and...
Following up on claims by President Guillermo Lasso, the Interior Ministry and National Police say they are investigating several political candidates suspected of having ties to drug trafficking and illegal mining activity. “We have received reports of candidates for the February election who have connections to criminal gangs and have opened investigations of several of...
Editor’s note: This is the first of a four-part series “Saving the World – One Ecosystem at a Time”. Article 2: “Your opportunities to connect with nature on an ecotour.” By John Keeble In a skeptical world coming to terms with the recent 190-nation agreement to save 30 percent of the planet for nature by...
By Andrew Van Dam We all know that America is a nation of immigrants (with the obvious exception of its long-marginalized native population). But every so often, it feels like it’s on the verge of becoming a nation of emigrants. After the 2004 reelection of George W. Bush, the 2020 election of Joe Biden and...
The majority of Ecuadorians are undecided about local races and issues on President Guillermo Lasso’s referendum in the February election, according to the Institute of Political Sciences of the Technological Business University of Guayaquil. A study by the center showed about 70 percent of the population still does not know who they will vote for...
“This is the biggest and best Pase del Niño ever,” is how Carmela Llivipuma described Saturday’s Christmas Eve parade through Cuenca’s historic district. The granddaughter of the event’s founder said 120,000, maybe more, watched or participated in the parade that proceeded down Calle Simon Bolivar for more than six hours. The parade was a “coming...
By Stephen Vargha Being an ecologically or environmentally responsible person is becoming more popular as climate change has become more evident, and our oceans get filled with plastics. Many people are trying to reduce their own adverse influence on ecology and the earth to the minimum. A small shop on Hermano Miguel, in El Centro,...
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